In
the last column you read and connected the dots from Dr. Albert Bartlett
as he asked questions that pertain to the �silent assertion�. You
know this country cannot keep pretending that we can grow forever.
We must stabilize our population sooner rather than later. We cannot
apply 20th century solutions that will not solve 21st century challenges.

We
cannot expect Third World countries to solve their own exploding populations.

Noted
scholar and biologist E.O. Wilson said, �The raging monster upon the
land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but
a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as many do, that the difficulties
of nations are not due to people but to poor ideology and land-use
management is sophistic.�

Those
of us living in large cities in America can�t help but wonder: where
does it all lead? Denver, where I live, suffers a �Brown Cloud� so
thick with toxins that every breath is filled with poison air. Our
traffic is a daily nightmare of accidents, road rage (one guy killed
two others last week) and wasted hours sitting in bumper to bumper
frustration. I-70 heading into the mountains makes a weekend getaway
a nightmare. Returning is an ordeal beyond belief. Throw in our water
shortages and you�ve got quality of life racing to the bottom of the
sewer. Our natural gas costs jumped 33 percent this fall after they
jumped 30 percent last year. Our electricity costs jumped 13 percent.
You all know where the price of gas is headed�yes--over five dollars
a gallon. It�s already five and six dollars a gallon in Europe.

Because
of mass immigration, we expect an added four million people into Colorado
by mid century. Texas adds 12 million by 2025 while California adds
20 million by 2035. Water shortages will become water wars!

The
1993 EPA report stands as a perfect example of silent assertion�s
denial of population growth as the prime culprit of our cities� dilemmas:
�Where many areas are experiencing rapid urban growth and associated
environmental problems�a stronger emphasis on sustainable agricultural
practices will be a key element in any long-term solutions to problems
in the area.�

How
frickin' stupid is that statement? There is no way to keep growing
and stop destroying farmland! In Colorado, we pave 100,000 acres annually
in the name of �growth�. Tell me how you can grow corn, wheat and
vegetables on pavement! You cannot solve traffic gridlock by adding
thousands of cars to the highways. You cannot solve water shortages
by adding more people, lawns and toilets to flush.

The
respected journalist Bill Moyers introduced another aspect of overpopulation
when he asked science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, �What happens to
the idea of the dignity of the human species if population growth
continues at the present rate?�

Asimov
replied, �It will be completely destroyed. I like to use what I call
the bathroom metaphor: if two people live in an apartment and there
are two bathrooms, then both have freedom of the bathroom. You can
go to the bathroom anytime you want and stay as long as you want for
whatever you need. Everyone believes in the freedom of the bathroom.
But if you have 20 people in the apartment and two bathrooms, no matter
how much everyone believes in the freedom of the bathroom, there is
no such thing. You have to set up times for each person, you have
to bang on the door. �Aren�t you through yet?� And so on!�

Asimov
made what may become a profound observation as we head into further
overpopulation dilemmas: �In the same way, democracy cannot survive
overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive overpopulation. Convenience
and decency cannot survive overpopulation. As you jam more and more
people into the world, the value of life not only declines, it disappears.
It doesn�t matter if someone dies, the more there are, the less one
person matters.�

Fellow
Americans�does anyone here think Chinese and Indian citizens enjoy
their predicament? If they enjoy it, why are they fleeing their countries?

Thus,
you might ponder a few of Dr. Bartlett�s Laws of Sustainability:

First
Law: Population growth and/or growth in the rates of consumption of
resources cannot be sustained. Persons who advocate population growth
are advocating unsustainability. Such persons mislead themselves and
others.

Second
Law: In a society with a growing population, the more difficult it
will be to transform the society to the condition of sustainability.
This is caused by the phenomenon of �population momentum�.

Third
Law: The response time of populations to changes in human fertility
rate is 70 years. In other words, if we want to stabilize the population
by mid 21st century, we must make changes now. For the record, the
US created a stable society at 2.03 fertility level, but immigration
at four million annually negates it.

Fourth
Law: The size of population that can be sustained (carrying capacity)
and the sustainable average standard of living of the population are
inversely related to one another. The higher the standard of living
one wishes to sustain, the more urgent it is to stabilize population
growth.

Fifth
Law: Sustainability requires that the size of the population be less
than or equal to the carrying capacity of the ecosystem for the desired
standard of living. The rate of destruction of ecosystems increases
as the rate of growth of the population increases.

Sixth
Law: The benefits of population growth and consumption accrue to a
few. The costs are borne by the �many� average citizens. That�s why
politicians and developers promote growth along with real estate people.
They move to other havens where they escape the �results� of their
labors.

Ninth
Law: When large efforts are made to improve efficiency, the results
are wiped out by added population.

Fourteenth
Law: If humans fail to stop population growth and growth in the rates
of consumption of resources, nature will stop these growths. By contemporary
standards, nature�s method of stopping growth is cruel and inhumane.

One
look at the March 14, 2005 Time Magazine piece that reported eight
million people die annually of starvation world wide�offers a window
into our future. Additionally, you can see it on many of the religious
channels where they solicit money for food for millions of starving
children in Africa. Notice they offer food which creates more children,
so they never solve the core issue of too many humans. They need to
offer birth control devices, for, without birth control, all their
efforts and your money become useless as those populations explode
by 85 million annually.

Nonetheless,
I�ll receive hundreds of emails countering this column by well meaning
people who operate via emotions, hopes and faith that it will turn
out okay. Their propensities fall into the �Cassandra Syndrome�: The
Cassandra Syndrome is a term applied to predictions of doom about
the future that are not believed, but upon later reflection turn out
to be correct. This denotes a psychological tendency among
people to disbelieve inescapably bad news, often through denial. The
person making the prediction is caught in the dilemma of knowing what
is going to happen but not being able to resolve the problem. The
origin of the name is derived from Cassandra, who, using her
prescience, foresaw the demise of Troy. No one believed her.

What
happened to Bangladesh, China and India, happened! Their problems
relating to overpopulation create a miserable life for their citizens.
As to what is happening in Amsterdam, Holland; Paris, France and Sydney,
Australia from immigrating incompatible Third World cultures and languages,
which resulted in violence, happened! They dug a �rabbit hole� they
can�t escape because the �beast� is inside them. It WILL and it IS
happening in America unless we change course before the �beast� is
too big for us to stop. If we allow another 10 million illegal Mexican
immigrants, we�ll become another Mexico with all the trash, disease,
poverty, corruption, gangs and degradation of our society that is
now manifested in Mexico. We either do it today or Paris, France will
be the streets of �Any town, USA� in the very near future.

David
Durham of Carrying Capacity Network added, �Cultural carrying capacity
is also very important, because too much cultural diversity leads
to loss of social cohesion shown by recent French and Australian riots.
Carrying Capacity Network is the most comprehensive source for all
scholarship and activism relating to protecting carrying capacity.
Our two thousand six hundred page carrying capacity briefing book
contains a virtual road map to achieve the sustainability of the United
States. It was favorably written up in the New York Review of Books.�

I�ve
covered the major laws. If you want a full and terribly sobering copy
of this report, call 1 800 352 4843 or www.thesocialcontract.com.
Ask for the Fall 2005 Quarterly. While you�re at it, help educate
your friends and neighbors with a booklet from www.CommonSenseOnMassImmigration.us.
For a video of Dr. Bartlett�s absolutely enthralling �Arithmetic,
Population and Energy,� please call 303 492 2670 or e-mail [email protected].
Another web site that offers you tremendous information about this
crisis: www.carryingcapacity.org

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of Americans refuse the �silent assertion� mode of denial. They know
their actions will be the only thing that saves America from drowning
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Because
of mass immigration, we expect an added four million people into Colorado
by mid century. Texas adds 12 million by 2025 while California adds 20
million by 2035. Water shortages will become water wars!